It makes sense — new Astonishing X-Men writer Marjorie Liu has established that Northstar will be part of the book’s cast, and a same-sex marriage would show that Marvel is willing to take the same progressive step that Archie took recently, in marrying off Kevin Keller in their alternate future title Life with Archie.

On a practical level it makes sense, too: Currently, the X-Men are based in San Francisco where, alas, same-sex marriage isn’t legal. But Northstar is Canadian—he could race Kyle up to Quebec, tie the knot and return to base in the time it takes Wolverine to pop his claws.

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In the 90’s or so in an issue of Uncanny X-Men (I think), Iceman almost came out to Jean Grey while they were shopping for clothes. He makes a comment about how he always ends up “filling this role” for the group or something, and then tells Jean he wants to tell her something, and that he thought she already knew, then lingers a bit. Just as he was about to come out, the (f*cking) X-Babies burst into the scene and ruined everything.

That’s from memory. Some details may be off.

There have also been a plethora of clues that he might be gay or bi (most unintentional, some on purpose) throughout his history. But this all depends on the writer, and since the X-Men are a franchise owned by a company (Marvel) his character has been written by dozens of different writers who all take him in different directions. Recently writers have made him get into numerous hetero relationships.

So whether he is actually gay or bi or straight is totally at the whims of whatever writer(s) currently are using him. But at least a few writers have put intentional clues down that he is in the closet.